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CLOTHES HANGER.. No. 536,483.

Patented Mar; 26, 1895. I

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JOHN H. J. BONNER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CLOTHES-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 536,483, dated March26, 1895.

Application filed October 6, 1894. Serial No. 5 25,119- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN H. J. BONNER, of New York city, in the countyand State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Clothes-Hanger,of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to improvements in clothes hangers; and the objectof my invention is to produce an extremely simple and cheap device,which is adapted to hold an entire suit of mens clothes and may be alsomade to support other garments, also to produce a device which isconstructed in such a way that the clothes may be easily applied to orremoved from it, and to arrange the hanger so that the clothes which itsupports will be held in such a way as to prevent them from becomingcreased or out of shape.

To these ends my invention consists of cer tain features of constructionand combinations of parts, which will be hereinafter described andclaimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the clothes hanger embodying myinvention. Fig. 2is a perspective view of the clothes hanger with thefastening nut arranged at the top instead of at the bottom. Fig. 3 isaperspective view of another modification of the clothes hanger. Fig. 4is a perspective view of the form of hanger shown in Fig. 1, but withsleeve supports attached; and Fig. 5 is a cross section of the form ofhanger shownin Fig. 1.

The hanger is provided with oppositely arranged clamping jaws 10 and 11which are placed one above the other,the jaw 10 being oval inlongitudinal section and also in'cross section, so that a coat or othergarment, may lie smoothly on it, and the upper edges of the lower jaw 11are beveled, as shown 'at 12, to prevent the jaw from creasing thetrousers or other garment which may be held between it and the upperjaw. The hanger is provided with a hook 13, which has a screw shank 14long enough to extend through the central portion of both jaws 10 and11, and on the shank of the hook is a burr 15, or similar abutment,which rests on the top of the upper jaw I 10 and on the lower end of thescrew shank is a thumb nut 16 which is adapted to abut with the lowerjaw 11 and, by turning up this nut, the jaws may be clamped firmlytogether.

In hanging trousers the trousers are placed bottom side up and the lowerends clamped between the upper and lower jaws 11 and a waistcoat orother garment may-be fastened in a similar way. A coat is placed overthe upper jaw 10, the ends of the jaw projecting into the upper portionsof the coat sleeves, and it will be seen that an entire suit may be thussecured to the hanger and the latter may be suspended by the hook 13.

As shown in Fig. 2, .the hanger is provided with a suspending hook 13,like that already described, but the hook has a head 17 at the lowerend, and a thumb nut 16 isplaced on the shank 14 of the hook above theupper jaw 10 and the jaws are clamped together by turning down the' nut;I

In Fig. 3 the lower jaw 11 is provided with a fixed nut 18 through whichthe shank 14 of the hook 13 extends, and the two'jaws may be clampedtogether or separated by turning the hook and its shank;

In Fig. 4 I have shown the hanger provided with sleeve supports, whichmay be attached to either form of the hanger, and each support consistsof a transversely placed wire loop 19, the ends 20 of which are sprunginto holes in the sides of the upper jaw 10, as the drawings clearlyshow. These loops are adapted to project into the sleeves of a garmentand support the shoulders, so that for this reason the sleeve supportsare especially adapted for use when a ladys garment with big sleeves isto be hung on the hanger.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent- A clothes hanger comprising two separable jaws havingoppositely arranged clamping faces, a suspending hook having a screwthreaded shank extending through both jaws, a burr on the upper end ofthe shank adapted to bear on the upper face of the upper member and anut screwing on the lower end of the shank, below the lower jawsubstantially as set forth.

JOHN H. J. BONNER.

